Endorsed: "Truman." This is an account of the death of Samuel Walker of Truro, who had died at Blackheath, July 19, 1761; see ASW, p. 77. She also mentions, "Your sister has been at Croyden and not yet returned." Judith Townsend had married John...

Craddock Glascott (c.1743-1831) was the son of Thomas Glascott of Cardiff. He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford and was ordained into the Anglican Church although the exact date is unknown. There is little information about him until he started...

Henry Venn (1724-97) was born in Surrey, the son of the distinguished Anglican clergyman Richard Venn. He was educated privately and at Jesus College Cambridge. After graduation, Venn was ordained into the Church of England and in 1749, was elected...

Abraham Hepworth (1771-1855) was born in Graffham, Huntingdonshire. He was educated at Corpus Christi Cambridge and served a curacy in Yorkshire before commencing a long ministry as Vicar of St Luke’s in Manchester. In 1843 he moved to become the...

Postmarked "OXFORD"; sent by "+ Post",i.e, "Cross post". J.O.W.H. wrote the following note on the top left of p. 1: "I remember Dr Bridges an odd great gaunt old man at Clifton 1822 or thereabouts. He wanted me to write a book like his nephew. He...

Endorsed: "Dear Lady Elton's 1st letter. A friendship which only closed in Death." Also noted at the top of the letter, "She was a great friend of my Fathers. I remember her climbing up upon his bed to kiss him a few hours before he died, and his...

Endorsed: L[lewellyn] and F[rederic] Powys, [Richard Ash] Hannaford, etc. William Griffin may have been a parish official at Aldwincle. Frederic Powys was the son of a former Rector of St Peter, Aldwincle, and Curate of the parish of Titchmarsh.

Noted: ''Author of the essays & c.'' ''Engraved for the New Evangelical Magazine, June 1824.''
John Foster (1770-1843) was born at Halifax in Yorkshire, the son of a devout Baptist farmer. Foster studied under the minister John Fawcett before...